Tài liệu Hardygould_janet_sindbad

By Janet Hardy-GouLd IlLustrated by Dave NeaLe OXFORD Sinbad By Janet Hardy-Gould Illustrated by Dave Neale OXFORD UN I VERSITY PRESS Before you read ... 1 This is Sinbad. Where does he come from? Circle. a Athens b Baghdad c Istanbul d Cairo 2 Sinbad has many adventures. Match the words with the pictures. 1 ship a OUR story begins in old Baghdad. A rich old man is very ill in bed. He calls to his son, Sin bad. 'I'm dying, sinbad,' says the old man. 'You can have all my money, my son. But you must be careful with it.' 'Please don't die, Father,' says sinbad. ill money rich 1 Sinbad's father dies and Sinbad is unhappy for a long time. But one day he thinks, 'I'm a very lucky man. I have got a lot of money now, some beautiful things and a big house.' Sinbad buys new things to wear and expensive things to eat with his father's money . Every evening Sinbad's friends come to his house. They have a big dinner and laugh all night. expensive 2 ~ laugh lucky unhappy But after a year, Sinbad has got no more money. 'What can 1 do?' he thinks. He looks at the things in his father's house. He sees aLL the beautiful carpets. Suddenly he has an idea. 'I can sail to different countries: Sinbad thinks. 'And 1 can seLL these carpets for a lot of money.' Sinbad finds an old ship with a very old captain. Three days later, Sin bad is ready to leave Baghdad . He talks to aLL the men on the ship. 'I want to seLL my carpets and bring back a lot of money: he teLLs them. captain carpet seLL ship 3 The ship sails away from Baghdad and outto sea. After ten days at sea, Sinbad is ve ry thirsty . He sees a beautiful island . 'Please stop!' he says to the captain. Sin bad and some of the sailors go onto the island . Sinbad takes a barrel. He wants to look for some water. barrel 4 island sailor sea 'What a wonderful island!' says Sinbad. They begin to look for water. But suddenly the island moves. 'The island is moving!' says Sinbad. 'Oh no!' cry the sailors. 'This isn't an island. It's a whale!' The whale moves down into the water. All the sailors are in the sea. ' Help! Help!' they cry . Sinbad quickly gets into the barrel. Now he is at sea in the barrel. 'Hello! Hello! ' he cries again and again. But nobody answers. move whale 5 1 Read and circle the answers. 1 Sinbad's father is ill and dies. C[§;/ 2 Sinbad wants to sell his father's house. Yes/ No 3 Sinbad leaves Baghdad on a new ship. Yes/ No 4 The ship sails for ten days. Yes / No 5 Sinbad wants to look for food on the island. Yes/ No 6 The island is a whale. Yes/ No 7 Sinbad gets into a barrel. Yes / No 8 Yes / No Sinbad goes back to the ship. 2 Match the words with the pictures. barrel captain carpet j.slcr'Il"d m 0 ne y s hip island expensive ill 2 3 4 5 6 7 _ _ _ __ 8 1 6 No 3 Read and match. 1 Sinbad lives a with his friends . 2 Sinbad's father was b in a barrel. 3 Sinbad has dinner c down into the sea. 4 Sin bad is going to d a rich man. S Sin bad sees e in Baghdad. 6 The whale moves f 7 4 Sinbad is at sea a beautiful island . g sell his father's carpets. What happens next? Choose. a 0 Sinbad finds the ship again . b 0 Sinbad comes to a small island. c 0 Sinbad sells his carpets and gets lots of money . 7 Sinbad's barrel moves on the sea all night. In the morning he looks out and sees a small island. Soon the barrel comes to the island and Sinbad gets out. Suddenly the sky becomes black. Sinbad feels afraid. 'Help! What's happening?' he cries. He looks up atthe sky . A very big bird is flying nearer and nearer. 'Oh, no!' he thinks, 'That bird is a Roe.' - --------------------------------------------------------bird 8 sky The Roe sits down and goes to sleep. 5inbad takes off his turban and he puts it around the Roe's leg . 'When the Roe flies away, I can leave the island, too: he thinks. After some time, the Roe wakes up and flies away . 5inbad flies up into the sky with the bird . The Roe flies for hours and hou rs. In the end it flies down into a valley and lands there. land sleep turban valley 9 In the valley Sinbad jinds lots of little rocks. 'What are these?' he thinks. 'I know!' he cries. 'They 're jewels!' And he puts some of them in his bag . Then he hears a noise. There are three big snakes behind him. He runs away very fast. In front of him he sees a dead animal. He goes behind the animal and waits. Soon a Rocflies down and takes the dead animal up into the sky. Quickly Sinbad puts his arms around the dead animal. He flies up into the sky with the Roe. animal 10 dead jewels rock The Roc flies out of the valley a nd it La nds nea r a viLLage. The men from the village run to see it, then the Roc flies away. Sinbad comes out from under the dead animal. 'Who are you?' ask the men from the village. 'I'm Sinbad the SaiLor: he says. 'I was in the valley.' The peopLe are surprised. ' Nobody goes into the valley: they say. 'The snakes eat everything there.' 'Not me!' Laughs Sinbad. 'You're very Lucky!' they say . Sinbad wants to go back to Baghdad. He gives the jeweLs to the peopLe and they jind a ship for him. When Sin bad arrives in Baghdad he meets his friends . 'Is it you, our oLd friend Sinbad?' they ask. 'Yes. But I'm Sin bad the SaiLor now!' he says. And he tells them about his adventures. adventure surprised ~ 11 1 Complete the sentences. 1 On the island, Sin bad looks up and sees a big ... a 0 snake. b 0 whale. e IZl bird. 2 sinbad flies with the Roe and lands ... a 0 on the ship. b 0 in a valley. c O in Baghdad. 3 In the valley sinbadjindslots of ... a 4 0 carpets. b 0 jewels. e 0 money . e 0 snakes. sinbad runs away from ... a 0 a dead animal. b O a Roe. 5 The people in the village think that sinbad is ... °0 lucky . b 0 ill. c 0 rich. 2 Look at the pictures and write the words. 2 s 3 v ____ _ 5 j ___ _ 12 4 0 ____ _ 6o_v _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 Order the words. 1 arrives on an island sinbad Sinbad arrives on an island. 2 in the sky flies 4 some jewels 6 three sinbad in Baghdad is the Roe 3 5 4 bird sinbad puts into behind his friends A big flying with into the sky his bag big snakes sinbad He There are meets What happens next? Choose. a 0 Sinbad stays in Baghdad. b 0 Sin bad sails away again. e 0 A Roe wants to eat sinbad. 13 Sinbad's friends come to visit him at his father's house. But there is nothing to eat or drink, and there are no ca rpets in the house. His friends soon go away. 'I need some more adventures: thinks Sinbad . The next morning Sinbadfinds a ship and a captain, and soon he's ready to leave Baghdad again . After a week at sea, the ship arrives at an island. 'That's the island of Zugab: says the captain. 14 Sinbad gets off the boat and explores the island with two of the sailors. Sudden ly the sky goes black a nd there's a big storm . The storm takes the ship far out to sea . Sinbad and the two sailors are now the only people on the island . They climb behind some big rocks and when night comes they go to sleep. In the morning they jind a very big snake around them. The snake eats one of the sailors. climb explore storm 15 Quickll,J Sin bad and the second sailor climb a tree. Thel,J stal,J there all dal,J and all night. When sinbad wakes up in the morning, he's alone. 'Oh no! The second sailor is dead, too,' he thinks. 'And I'm the snake's next breakfast!' Just then sinbad sees some wood near the tree. He climbs down the tree and he makes some armour from the wood, then he climbs the tree again. sinbad stal,Js in his armour all night. The snake moves around him, but it can 't eat sinbad. alone armour tree wood In the morning Sinbad sees a ship out at sea . 'I know that ship,' he thinks. 'It's my old ship!' The snake is sleeping in the sun near the tree. Sinbad quietly climbs down the tree. Then he runs to the sea . The snake wakes up and comes after him. But Sinbad runs faster and gets to the sea before the snake can eat him . Sinbad swims to the ship. 'It's Sinbad!' cry the sailors. 'You're a very lucky man! We have all your beautiful carpets from Baghdad! ' 'Thank you!' says Sinbad. The ship sails home. It stops at lots of different countries and Sinbad sells all his carpets. When he arrives in Baghdad he has got a lot of money . sail wake up 17